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If you're after a huge workstation that will be everything and do everything while looking like the flight deck of a moon-sized space station then Fantom is right up your exhaust port.
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The Jupiter-X looks fantastic and runs all their vintage models and has a built-in drum machine. The Jupiter-Xm has all that in a more hipster package. Is this the flagship we've been waiting for?
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Sarah Nicolls is building a lightweight & portable acoustic "Standing Grand" piano based upon her innovative "Inside-Out Piano" and is looking for people to support this unique project via Kickstarter
This week’s lineup of free plug-ins: A graphic EQ, a tasty lo-fi piano, and an awesome electromagnetic interference instrument. Check out Efektor, Room Piano V2, and Cyclotronic Signals - Aurora.
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Sampleson has shifted its spectral modelling gaze onto the electric pianos of the 1990s and offers up the aptly named Glassy combining classic DX and Roland digital sounds with a snuggly pad generator
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E-Instruments has released a collection of deeply sampled electric piano sounds for Steinberg's HALion and HALion Sonic instruments. Vibrant Electric Pianos could be all the pianos you'll ever need.
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Spectral Modelling is a curious thing. They sample an instrument and reduce it down to simple sine waves that recreate the authentic sound in a handful of MBs. The Model T is their latest electric piano.
Kurzweil mixes the Forte into their PC range of production workstations and comes up with the PC4 with loads of sample library, 1000's of presets, virtual analogue and now 6-operator FM built in.
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In a stunning change of direction Clavia produce the gorgeous looking Nord Grand which could easily become a cool piece of furniture as well as an awesome piano and sample synth.
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Sampleson uses spectral analysis and modelling to faithfully recreate the Wurlitzer 200a in only 30MB of sine wave samples. The Reed200 is refreshingly simple and delightfully full of character.
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New Vivo S7 Pro and S3 Pro high-end professional stage pianos hand made in Italy with unlimited polyphony sampled and model sounds and seamless preset switching.
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Casio revitalises its line of Privia portable pianos with the PX-S1000 and PX-S3000 giving glorious piano tones, speakers in a compact and very sleek new look.
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A chunky update to the Absolute collection of Steinberg HALion, instruments and synthesizers including the new Groove Agent 5, HALion 6 and HALion Sonic 3.
Roland expands its FP range of portable pianos with the simple, cheap and reasonably authentic FP-10. The 88-key hammer-action does what it's supposed to without any fuss for under £500.
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An unexpected full hammer-action 88 keyed gigging MIDI controller from Akai Pro built into a flight case and ready to rock. The minimal interface has loads of room for stacking your beers.
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Yamaha might have pulled off a cool looking stage piano with the vintage style interface of the CP73 and CP88.
